Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

84 reviews

miggyfool's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Ableism, Addiction, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Colonisation, Confinement, Drug abuse, Murder, Police brutality, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Dysphoria, Medical trauma, Slavery, and War

kirstenreading's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Murder, War, and Misogyny

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Medical trauma

some_froggish_lad's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

Fuck my love for this book is like a hundun, a what the fuck. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Gore, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, War, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, and Sexism

shelvesofivy's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Torture, War, Alcohol, Addiction, Death of parent, Grief, Misogyny, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual violence, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Vomit

Minor: Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Pedophilia, and Rape

thereadinghammock's review against another edition

The misogyny in this world is just too much for me. As much as I want to see her get her revenge, wading through the suffering I know will take place to get there doesn't feel worth it right now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Grief, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

itsame_dio's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

The story doesn't show any sympathy for other women. The main character is very judgemental of other women and how they aren't loudly standing up to the misogyny but she doesn't take into consideration any of their circumstances like their class status or how their ethnicity.  Other than that, there's no character development, she stays angry ( rightfully so ) throughout the whole book and we only kinda get to know 1 of the love interests.

We get all of Li Shimin's back story but all we know of Yizhi is that he looks pretty and has tattoos and that's all lol. Then they get together ( after Zetian spent 80% of the book HATING Shimin ) and right after Shimin dies smdh the romance felt pretty rushed

However based on the YA that was popular when I was in HS this one note-ness is par for the course tbh. In other books, the MC's one character trait is being so kind and pure that she could heal every emotionally stunted boy's heart in a 50mi radius, in this book Zetian's character trait is being angry as hell

and murder

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Misogyny, Violence, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Xenophobia, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, War, Drug abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Rape

noceur's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I support women's rights but most importantly I support women's wrongs. Also polyam instead of a love triangle <3

however i think the writing is lacking and the world and character building just wasn't there esspecially i think the romace wasn't well developed. also it was marketed as a feminist read, which I don't really agree with. it kinda felt like a violent and shallow form of feminism to me. for example our fmc talks about how women annoy her and how much she hates being a women also all the other female characters either dies or like misogynistic so i think it could have been better in those aspects. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Violence, War, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Sexual violence, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

lilithall's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

This book perfectly encapsulates the black and white sense of justice and right and wrong 19 year olds feel. It ignores the larger impacts and influences of the problems the protag wants to solve and rapidly spins into chaos in the name of solving the wrong root problem. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Murder, Addiction, Death, Sexual assault, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Body horror, Alcoholism, Torture, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, and War

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Misogyny, Physical abuse, War, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Colonisation, Violence, Ableism, Blood, Classism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexism, Grief, Gore, and Gun violence

kevin_the_intern's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Torture, War, and Sexism